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" Opting out? : "
Pamela Stone.
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BL
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1042154
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b796524
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Stone, Pamela,1950-
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Opting out? : : why women really quit careers and head home /\ Pamela Stone.
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) :: illustrations
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0520941799
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: 1429478071
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: 9781429478076
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0520244354
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0520256573
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1282360620
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9780520244351
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9780520256576
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9781282360624
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
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| Contents
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The dream team -- Family matters -- Home alone -- Gilded cages -- The choice gap -- Half-full, half-empty -- Mothers of re-invention -- Cocooning: the drift to domesticity -- Dreams and visions: getting there -- Appendix. Study methodology.
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Noting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocative study is the first to tackle this issue from the perspective of the women themselves. Based on a series of candid, in-depth interviews with women who returned home after working as doctors, lawyers, bankers, scientists, and other professions, Pamela Stone explores the role that th.
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Choice (Psychology)
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Life change events.
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Stay-at-home mothers.
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Work and family.
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Choice (Psychology)
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-- Parenting-- Motherhood.
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Life change events.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.
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Stay-at-home mothers.
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Work and family.
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306.874/3
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HQ759.46.S86 2007eb
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